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title: He said: “I will choose six of you, and set my son who is dumb, over… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: He said: “I will choose six of you, and set my son who is dumb, over you, that will make seven in all. Who acts: chief, son, that. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 16

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He said: “I will choose six of you, and set my son who is dumb, over you, that will make seven in all.

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**Who acts:** chief, son, that · **What happens:** say, choose, set, be, make · **To what, where:** six, son, seven, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, son, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg71335:9:16
# text = He said: “I will choose six of you, and set my son who is dumb, over you, that will make seven in all.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
26	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **choose** *in a quote* | future | chief | six of you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Theme |
| 3 | **set** *in a quote* | infinitive | chief *not said here* | my son |  |  |  | you *conj* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient son=Result |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my son |  |  |  |  | dumb *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | future | that | seven |  | all |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seven=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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